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r.i.p

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mr ufo by charles lear

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this past memorial day may 31st 2021

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ufo and paranormal researcher timothy

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green beckley passed on

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he was a colorful character who stood

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out in a field full of colorful

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characters

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and while he might not have been the

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most serious of researchers

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he was part of a circle of legendary

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characters from the days of flying

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saucers

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that included james mosley grey barker

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and john keel

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records of beckley's age at the time of

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his passing range from 65 to

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69 according to the internet movie

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database

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he was born on march 4th 1952 as

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jeremy stone in addition to his interest

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in the paranormal he was an actor in and

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producer of

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softcore porn horror movies and was

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known to fans as

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mr creepo he wrote and published many

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books on the paranormal

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with a definite sensationalized bent and

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was active in the community up until his

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death

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according to what is believed to be his

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self-authored bio

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tim beckley had so many careers that

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even his own girlfriend didn't know what

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he did for a living

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timothy green beckley has been described

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as the hunter thompson of ufology

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by the editor of ufo magazine nancy

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burns

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his bio contains the claims that his

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life was saved by an invisible force at

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the age of three

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he started having out-of-body

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experiences at the age of six

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he had his first ufo sighting at age 10

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and had two more after that

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in the course of his life beckley grew

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up listening to

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the long john neville show which started

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in 1956

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and evolved into the first late night

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talk show devoted to the paranormal

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in his later years beckley was a repeat

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guest he was also a guest on numerous

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other paranormal television and radio

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shows

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including coast to coast am ufo hunters

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and weird or what with william shatner

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he had his own podcast

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unraveling the secrets and his own

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youtube channel

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mr ufo's secret files beckley also

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worked on a podcast

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with tim swartz called exploring the

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bazaar

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adding to beckley's paranormal street

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cred is the fact that he was on site

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with gray barker

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investigating the 1966-1967

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mothman sightings in west virginia in

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chapter 16 of barker's 1970 book

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covering the events

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the silver bridge barker describes

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beckley coming down from new york

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with jim mosley and two others for a

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mini mothman convention

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some relaxation and investigation

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summing up their investigation

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beckley is quoted as saying i really

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didn't expect to see the creature

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but after all we talked with a lot of

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people who did see it

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those who are students of the men in

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black phenomenon may be familiar

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with what has been described as a photo

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of an mib

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what they may not know is the story

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behind the photo

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and the fact that beckley was the

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photographer according to one version of

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the story

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from blogger justin bamforth which

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references

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nick redfern's 2011 book the real men in

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black

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in 1968 mosley and beckley started

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getting calls from

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mary robertson the wife of prominent

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ufologist

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and secretary of the national ufo

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conference john jack robertson

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over four days while her husband was at

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work mary noticed a suspicious man

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keeping watch over their apartment

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building

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in jersey city new jersey he was

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standing rigidly in the doorway of the

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building next door

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he wore a black coat black suit black

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hat

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and had wrap around black sunglasses in

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addition to the mysterious man

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the robertsons heard strange clicks on

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their phone and suspected that someone

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had gone through jack's ufo files

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after several calls from mary mosley and

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beckley decided to come out and see for

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themselves

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mosley was driving and beckley was

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manning the camera

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as they approached the spot they saw the

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man maria described

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and beckley took a picture of him as

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well as a picture of a black cadillac

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nearby

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that fit in with the mib mythos they

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drove around the corner to park

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and when they walked back to the spot

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the man and the cadillac were gone

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in redfern's book mosley is quoted

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explaining his thoughts on what they had

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the only thing that kind of made sense

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to me was that he was a lookout for a

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bookie joint

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or some illegal operation but the point

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to me anyway not to tim i know it had

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absolutely nothing to do with the

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robertsons

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or with flying saucers he might have

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seen tim

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taking his picture out of the car and if

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he was doing something illegal

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that's why he left according to bamforth

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during a brief conversation regarding

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the cadillac

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beckley agreed that there was no proof

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that the car belonged to the man

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but bamforth notes that it is a little

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strange perhaps coincidental

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that neither the man nor the vehicle was

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there when he and mosley returned to the

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scene moments later

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with beckley's passing ufology has lost

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one of the last of those researcher

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such as barker and mosley who walked on

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both sides of the line between

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researcher and sensationalist

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entertainer while maintaining a sense of

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humor

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he may not have been the most rigorous

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of investigators

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enthusiastic